Google proves Sex for Lurve trade-off?

The old saw is that women trade love for sex, men trade sex for love. It has been believed and rubbished over the ages, but its been impossible to prove or disprove until the sociological laboratory that is the Web came along. Dan Ariely, who wrote Predictably Irrational (a must read text for behavioural economists among you - actually, for anyone who reads this blog) put up this exhibit above in his post, showing the most popular searches for the term.

QED?

Actually, CES - Technology is getting in the way these days. Historically it has proven easier to build devices to ensure women have no need for men, but cometh the hour, cometh he robotics. Tacked on to every CES is teh Adult TEch show (thats the only reason most people actually attend CES I think, as Paul Carr points out there 's no real need to if its just Tech geegaws you're covering). IN this year's show there are the first:

- Robots that will - ahem - Lurve you, unconditionally. I have already predicted Robotics will take a front seat in 2010. shoulda guessed Porn would be ahead of the game (as it were)
- Devices using Haptics to stimuate your every desire
- iPod/iPhone sound driven devices to stimulate the male...ego. The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" will never be the same again
- 3D Moving pictures

This starts a totally new category of Internet User Devices for our value chain models